Or more than any living man could bear.

Now you have heard the truth, what fay you, Romans?

Have we done aught amifs? Show us wherein,
And, from the place where you behold us now,
The poor remainder of Andronici

Will, hand in hand, all headlong caft us down,
And on the ragged ftones beat forth our brains,
And make a mutual closure of our house.
Speak, Romans, speak: and, if you say, we shall,
Lo, hand in hand, Lucius and I will fall.

EMIL. Come, come, thou reverend man of Rome,
And bring our emperor gently in thy hand,
Lucius our emperor; for, well I know,

The common voice do cry, it shall be so.

[peror!

ROM. [Several fpeak.] Lucius, all hail; Rome's royal emLUCIUS, &c. defcend.

MAR. Go, go into old Titus' forrowful house;

[To an Attendant.

And hither hale that misbelieving Moor,

To be adjudg'd fome direful flaughtering death,
As punishment for his moft wicked life.

[governor!
ROM. [Several peak.] Lucius, all hail; Rome's gracious
Luc. Thanks, gentle Romans; May I govern fo,
To heal Rome's harms, and wipe away her woe!
But, gentle people, give me aim awhile,-

For nature puts me to a heavy task ;—
Stand all aloof;-but, uncle, draw you near,
To fhed obfequious tears upon this trunk :-
O, take this warm kifs on thy pale cold lips, [Kisses TITUS.
These forrowful drops upon thy blood-stain'd face,
The last true duties of thy noble fon!

MAR. Tear for tear, and loving kiss for kiss,

Thy brother Marcus tenders on thy lips:

O, were the fum of thefe that I fhould pay
Countless and infinite, yet would I pay them!

Luc. Come hither, boy; come, come, and learn of us To melt in showers: Thy grandfire lov'd thee well :

Many a time he danc'd thee on his knee,

Sung thee asleep, his loving breast thy pillow;
Many a matter hath he told to thee,
Meet, and agreeing with thine infancy;
In that respect then, like a loving child,
Shed yet fome small drops from thy tender spring,
Because kind nature doth require it fo :

Friends should affociate friends in grief and woe:
Bid him farewell; commit him to the grave;
Do him that kindness, and take leave of him.

Bor. O grandfire, grandfire! even with all my heart
"Would I were dead, fo you did live again!.
O lord, I cannot speak to him for weeping;
My tears will choke me, if I ope my mouth.
Enter Attendants, with AARON.

I ROM. You fad Andronici, have done with woes; Give fentence on this execrable wretch,

That hath been breeder of these dire events.

Luc. Set him breaft-deep in earth, and famish him; There let him ftand, and rave and cry for food:

If any one relieves or pities him,

For the offence he dies. This is our doom:

Some ftay, to fee him faften'd in the earth.

AAR. O, why fhould wrath be mute, and fury dumb? I am no baby, I, that, with base prayers, I fhould repent the evils I have done; Ten thoufand, worse than ever yet I did, Would I perform, if I might have my If one good deed in all my life I did,

will;

I do repent it from my very foul.

Luc. Some loving friends convey the emperor hence, And give him burial in his father's grave:

My father, and Lavinia, fhall forthwith
Be closed in our household's monument.
As for that heinous tiger, Tamora,

No funeral rite, nor man in mournful weeds,
No mournful bell fhall ring her burial;
But throw her forth to beafts, and birds of prey;
Her life was beast-like, and devoid of pity;
And, being fo, fhall have like want of pity.
See juftice done to Aaron, that damn'd Moor,
By whom our heavy haps had their beginning:
Then, afterwards, to order well the state;
That like events may ne'er it ruinate.

[Exeunt.

END OF VOLUME FIFTH.

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